Review
Far more impressive than pianist Martha Argerich’s impeccable mechanical abilities are her interpretive chops. Here, she’s truly in a league of her own.
That’s why Wadada Leo Smith’s musical visions are so miraculous: there’s an impression of drift, yet they rarely meander.
Faye Driscoll’s muddled version of taking artifice apart is far too familiar; we’ve done it all before, seen it more than once.
Poet Rob Cook bends time and space at will, dispenses with natural laws when convenient, and shuffles sensory perception like a deck of cards.
The King’s Choice is a thoughtful nail-biter, a suspenseful historical drama.
Nothing sleepy about the playing in the Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax disc; New Hampshire’s Heather Gilligan is a composer to watch.
An invigorating staging of Henrik Ibsen’s still pertinent play about spinelessness up and down the political spectrum.
This is one of the year’s standout orchestral albums and it’s a special treat to catch the ensemble live on these shores so soon after its release.
Finding Kukan is a compelling detective story covering the fields of World War II history and film preservation.
An entertaining but surprisingly slight monologue from Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol.
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